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Anthropologie et Sociétés

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L'" individualisme " chez Louis Dumont et l'anthropologie desidéologies globales. Genèse du point de vue comparatif (2epartie)Serge Tcherkézoff

Volume 18, Number 1, 1994Localismes

URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/015302arDOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/015302ar

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Cite this articleTcherkézoff, S. (1994). L'" individualisme " chez Louis Dumont etl'anthropologie des idéologies globales. Genèse du point de vue comparatif (2epartie). Anthropologie et Sociétés, 18(1), 203–222.https://doi.org/10.7202/015302ar

Article abstractLouis Dumont's Individualism and the Anthropology of Global IdeologiesGenesis of the Comparative PerspectiveThe concept of " individualism " as it appears in Louis Dumont's work has beenused in the many différent ways which are reviewed in this article. The authoralso shows how the meaning of this concept can reveal some ambiguities inDumont's work itself. This discussion allows the author to suggest someadjustments to the concept of " individualism ", so that it becomes possible torevive anthropological comparisons between societies. From this perspective,any ideology in a society can be analysed as a social fact which is organised byhierarchical relations ; this article discusses the examples of politicalFrance/political French life and of Western Samoa State (Polynesia). Anothertopic of discussion could be the passage from modem to postmodern ideology.This perspective could also be used to analyse societies within which différentcultural groups are in conflict.